Still At It…
Yes, I’m still at it – this cutting phase. In fact, I believe it’s been around 4 months, now. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?
I’m only slightly less than I was the last time I blogged, so now I’m hovering between slightly over 12.5 stone and 12.75 stone.
My fat loss has stalled slightly, but that’s only to be expected – things will get harder as they progress. But, due to work commitments and a general lack of desire to train, I’ve had around 5 weeks off since my last entry – 4 straight, one on, and another one off.
I’m now fully back into training as of this week, and I intend to remain so, especially as I believe heavy weight training is key to losing fat. We’ll see how right or wrong I am in the coming weeks, I guess.
There are other things to consider also, such as re-feed days. I think as my fat loss enters the latter stages, it’s going to be crucial that I not only up my protein intake daily, but I also have re-feed days every now and again. I need to keep my metabolism up.
Besides much research into losing fat, this first hand experience is all completely new to me so knowledge wise, it’s worth it’s weight in gold (no pun intended). But I dare say I haven’t fared too badly considering I’ve not exactly been completely strict.
Anyway. What now?
If the truth be told (and on this blog as you’ve seen, it always will be!) I don’t want to be cutting for much longer. It’s a very tedious process if you ask me. I enjoy the idea of growing muscle much more than I do losing fat, but I know it’s got to be done, unfortunately.
Right now, I’m in the arsehole of nowhere. I can’t buy decent clothes (jeans, etc.) because I don’t know what my waist size is going to end up as, so I’m currently stuck wearing ever ill-fitting clothes in the meantime. Just another downside to this, I suppose, but it definitely grates on me.
My main concern is my stomach fat. It’s definitely going down and tightening up, but I definitely want to lose a lot more fat from it before I begin bulking again (this time, a clean, slow bulk – God will I be doing things differently next time.) So I reckon I’m stuck until further notice. All I can do is try to do everything optimally, keep training, keep biking, keep eating protein, keep having the odd re-feed day, and in general, keep under eating.
It’d be nice to be able to say I want to stop at X weight and then bulk again, but I’ve no idea what my body is going to be like by any weight, so all I can do is continue cutting until a lot more of my stomach fat is gone. I’m certain I can have this nailed within 3 – 4 months.
But, purely in the spirit of guesstimating, I have a feeling 11.5 – 12 stone will be the magic number for me, so for now, I’m aiming for that.
Until the next time.
